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...blacks, Asians, or gays, final club devotees constitute a mere 15-20 percent of students—a minority themselves. Many members of final clubs, too, can justify their affiliation by distancing themselves from the occasional public relations disaster: “He’s not my close friend,” or “not in my club...
According to charges made public by the office of Israel's crusading Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, Olmert is accused of buying a heavily discounted Jerusalem apartment, at $320,000 below its $1.6 million market value, from a friend in the real estate business in return for granting illegal building permits. The Prime Minister's office said the investigation was "unnecessary" but that Olmert nevertheless would be willing to cooperate with police questioning. Privately, his staff expressed confidence that the case was too "full of holes" for Olmert to be charged...
...rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked her to make some pieces for his collections that she began to take the craft seriously. Several years later, Tiffany creative director John Loring enlisted Picasso to design a table setting for an exhibition that the jeweler was staging. Soon she was showing Tiffany...
INSIDE TRACK A FRIEND SENT HER BLOUSES TO SELL, AND NATORI TURNED THEM INTO NIGHTGOWNS...
Finally, in 1977 she settled on apparel when a friend in the Philippines sent her a suitcase of embroidered shirts that echoed the peasant blouses YSL was doing at the time. After cold-calling a buying agency, she was sent to Bloomingdale's?to the lingerie buyer, as it happened. The buyer suggested Natori make the blouses longer so they could be sold as nightshirts. "Everyone thinks I am obsessed with lingerie," says Natori, "but it was a complete accident...